Religion
- Schism (religion), a division or a split, usually between people belonging to an organization or movement, most frequently applied to a break of communion between two sections of Christianity that were previously a single body
- East–West Schism, a split between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church in the eleventh century; sometimes referred to as The Great Schism
- Nestorian Schism, splitting the Church in the Sassanid Empire (including modern Iraq) from the Church in the Eastern Roman Empire, after the First Council of Ephesus in 431
- Non-Chalcedonian Christianity in Armenia, Syria and Egypt, which in the 5th century split from the Church in Asia Minor, the Balkan peninsula and Italy
- Photian schism, a controversy lasting from 863 to 867 between Eastern and Western Christianity
- Western Schism, the split within the Roman Catholic Church from 1378 to 1417
- Jewish schisms
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